Pier Paolo Pasolini for Art History and Practice: Aesthetics and Politics

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini's intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic commitments and predilections, from Greek Attic vase painting to the to the spread of Caravaggism; from folkloric ethnography to the painting of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Alongside essays examining his influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century aesthetics, artists of different nationality, gender, and generation address Pasolini's continued consequence for their own work. The very notion of a politically engaged artistic practice owes a debt to Pasolini's oeuvre - one he called "extravagantly interdisciplinary," and which finds incisive reflection in the media, methods, and subjects addressed in these pages.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526186144
• ISBN13: 9781526186140
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"